BREAKING: A new outbreak of the highly contagious Ebola virus has been confirmed in Congo’s eastern Ituri province, Africa’s top public health body said. There have been 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths recorded so far. https://t.co/pfH5dhDyvK
Miners in Myanmar have discovered a rare ruby of enormous size, considered to be the second-largest by weight ever found in the conflict-battered Southeast Asian nation, state media reported.
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A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck the Santa Cruz Mountains near the San Andreas Fault, California. This epicenter is close to the epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake that occurred ~36 years ago during the last Saturn-Neptune conjunction. This could be a foreshock...
BREAKING: Iran has attacked an oil tanker named “Skylight” near the Straight of Hormuz.
Maersk is now suspending all shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.
⚓️ UN shipping agency says 3,200 vessels stranded west of Strait of Hormuz
About 20,000 seafarers are stranded aboard ships as threats of attacks on commercial vessels disrupt transit through the Strait of Hormuz, the International Maritime Organization said ahead of an emergency meeting on March 18–19 in London. Roughly 3,200 vessels are confined west of the chokepoint, including around 450 oil and gas tankers, 150 container ships, and 200 bulk carriers. Crews are facing worsening conditions, with reports of rapidly dwindling food and water supplies.
🎥 Video message from the IRGC to ships attempting transit, shared on the IRGC-affiliated Fars News.
I used Jupiter Cancer + Cancer rising w/ Mercury ruled Moon + Jupiter ruled Mercury + Day of the Moon hour of Mercury to divide some chives. Come summer my chive supply will be HIGH.
Astrologer Lee Lehman passed away yesterday. Lee was one of the pioneers in the early revival of traditional astrology, from the mid-1980s onward. She was particularly well-known for her work on horary astrology, which she helped to re-popularize in the United States. I first learned horary from Lee at Kepler College, where she was deeply involved as a dean and instructor in their degree program. That's why the main episode I did on horary, episode 116 of The Astrology Podcast, was with Lee. Her 2002 book The Martial Art of Horary Astrology is still a particularly brilliant work on Renaissance style horary.
She had a long list of accolades in our community, such as winning a Regulus award, being the first horary astrologer to win the Marc Edmund Jones Award, and being involved in a leadership capacity in different organizations. Lee was also one of the few openly gay astrologers in a time when it was not yet as easy or accepted to be in the astrological community. Her work was characterized by her rigorous and academic approach to traditional astrology, and her unapologetic attitude towards following her heart and interests even when it set her apart helped to shape the astrological community into what it is today.